Chuck Hagel Is Ideal GOP-Dem Establishment Candidate
Poster at Officer’s Club at Vandenburg Air Force Base, CA
Rather than the ultra-rich Hilary Clinton, who is really out-of-touch with average working Americans, as was Mitt Romney, the next presidential election could do no better than advance the candidacy of Secretary of State Chuck Hagel.
Seeming to come from the heart of the Cornhusker state of Nebraska, Hagel symbolically represents America’s heartland. Moderates who don’t have time to study more deeply than the evening news will notice sentimental tags to heritage, patriotism, and deeply-rooted Christian values. Enough for most.
Yes, Hagel is a Republican, elected many times in Nebraska because of his supposed clout in bringing pork back to the state. Really, is anything more important? Establishment GOP yearn for more federal dollars to make their way back home from coerced IRS taxation.
The term “Establishment” has remained positive politically. It conjures up the support of the wealthy. Who can deny that those with the most money are the smartest, having won at the same game that most others have failed at? Wouldn’t Benjamin Franklin have agreed that the acquisition of money is synonymous with the survival of the fittest in the long run?
Hagel was the perfect fit for a president whose notion of civil rights can now openly break just about any social barrier. Liberty is liberty isn’t it? Going beyond the exclusive advocacy of race, Hagel has become the administration’s front man for anything-goes diversity. The Commander-in-Chief knows who calls the shots. Career military had damn well better take notice.
Moderates will take the US government’s support of liberal extremes in stride. Voiceless citizens will seethe with fury, but who cares. For Establishment politicians from both parties, the only question is “what will it take to get me in office?”
For Chuck Hagel, it’s a small jump from race advocacy to sexual-orientation advocacy (poster). Multiculturalism has been legitimized in Britain and across Europe, hasn’t it? Isn’t being gay a civil right, though not deserving reparation “disability” payments, might at least qualify for affirmative action “adjustments”? Not so?
Even the otherwise (and widely popular in America) nostalgic Call the Midwife BBC series tests the sociological ground for acceptance of mixed-race offspring from one-night-stands (and then brother-sister incest) doesn’t it? Liberty is liberty, isn’t it?
In short, Chuck Hagel is the ideal candidate to “reach across the aisle.” He’s from the GOP (with vague conservative associations), he’s got the right hair and other politically correct looks, and he’s willing to embrace just about anything to guarantee election success. In a democracy, vox populi rules, as it should. Let one slate of careerists supplant another. People deserve what they have elected. Poetic justice.
